Lasty, Si, Matt and Dan went searching 🔎 for some lightweight bike tech at the 🇫🇷 Tour de France 🇫🇷 . They found some very impressive bits.
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The eagle eyed presenters have discovered some fantastic bits of lightweight technology on some bikes at the Tour de France, including:
- Trek Emonda Team Issue frameset, 635g!
- Look have a new lightweight climbing frame, weighing just 730g and some sections of the frame are just 0.6mm thick!
- Lasty discovered a carbon fibre chainring on Serge Pauwels Cervelo R5 bike.
- A new Argon 18 Gallium Pro as used by Fabio Aru in a custom colourway
- Chris Froome's Pinarello F10 has a Shimano Di2 climbing shifter without the casing, making it even lighter, a custom yellow mount for his GPS and finally a carbon fibre number holder
- Adam Hansen is back with his crazy light shoes. 160g a pair, which is about half the weight of a pair of stock shoes.
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